2011-07-02, 23:03
Hi,
I am running a Live install of XBMC off my Acer Aspire Revo which has an nVidia ION chip. I recently updated xbmc and after it rebooted, the screen goes dark and in the middle is a single dialogue box that says something like XBMC requires a GPU to run. I googled this and found that it means I need to install/update nVidia drivers.
No problem.
I tried SSHing into the box and running
or something like that.
It started a simple GUI where it downloaded the drivers but it fails when installing because it says I can't be in an X (windows) environment when updating.
I tried all sorts of things like "init 3" and "init 1" and even booting into a recovery mode from the boot menu. No luck.
I've also tried installing wget, grabbing the file manually, and running it from a shell. Same error.
Any help?
I am running a Live install of XBMC off my Acer Aspire Revo which has an nVidia ION chip. I recently updated xbmc and after it rebooted, the screen goes dark and in the middle is a single dialogue box that says something like XBMC requires a GPU to run. I googled this and found that it means I need to install/update nVidia drivers.
No problem.
I tried SSHing into the box and running
Code:
sudo nvidia-installer --update
It started a simple GUI where it downloaded the drivers but it fails when installing because it says I can't be in an X (windows) environment when updating.
I tried all sorts of things like "init 3" and "init 1" and even booting into a recovery mode from the boot menu. No luck.
I've also tried installing wget, grabbing the file manually, and running it from a shell. Same error.
Any help?